Elliot Erwitt in The New York Times

Lost Photographs of Pittsburgh

08 August 2017

Elliot Erwitt arrived in Pittsburgh in September of 1950 looking to prove his worth. Just 22 years old, he had traveled to the City of Bridges at the invitation of Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration’s documentary photography program, which during the 1930s and ’40s commissioned some of the century’s most enduring images by the likes of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.

Gail Albert Halaban in Zoom

Out of My Window

25 July 2017

The idea behind this long and intense project, entitled Out of My Window, occured to this New York photographer many years ago, during one of those intimate moments mothers experience while nursing as she looked out the window of her apartment one night.

Michael Eastman in Zoom

"The human presence can be very strong, even if no one is present."

24 July 2017

It was in 1972 that Michael Eastman began to observe the world as from inside a frame, setting out on his journey of experimentation with photography in which architecture and abstraction were at the center of his work.

Abelardo Morell in New York Magazine

9 July 2017

Valérie Belin: Meta-­clichés

Exhibition at the Shanghai Center of Photography

2 July - 24 August 2017

Valérie Belin explores the materiality of matter, primarily using the human form and its manmade and virtual representations. A central theme is her work is the boundary between reality and illusion; where, in our perception, in our habit of seeing and understanding, does this lie?

Sebastiaan Bremer at 21c Museum Hotel

Featuring The Sanctuary

23 June 2017

Titled “The Sanctuary”, this collaboration between painter Sebastiaan Bremer and musician-composer Josephine Wiggs includes paints and inks from Bremer’s studio, instruments from Wiggs’s home studio and a recording center, a bubble blower for the shower, an etch-a-sketch beside the toilet, an array of crazy second hand shop finds including a bizarre taxidermy fish alligator and a bulletin board affixed with band photos and a business card with the contact information for the the Nashville mayor’s scheduler.

"I AM" exhibition featuring Lalla Essaydi

Celebrating Middle Eastern women and their quest for peace

23 June 2017

I AM is a peacebuilding exhibition that premiered in Amman, Jordan under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah involving 31 of the Middle East's premier contemporary women artists that promotes and celebrates the many accomplishments of Middle Eastern women in shaping our world into a peaceful and harmonious one.

Elinor Carucci in Tablet Magazine

Interview with Periel Aschenbrand

21 June 2017

With her long, black hair, she more looks like an Israeli-bohemian-mama-Venus-goddess than a photography powerhouse. She is also nicer and more gentle than probably anyone else in New York City—let alone anyone in the art world, let alone anyone in the art world in New York City—who has achieved this level of success.

Elinor Carucci on B&H's Explora

A Studio Visit

16 June 2017

When Elinor Carucci is behind the camera, the distinction between public and private moments disappears. For more than two decades, Carucci has offered an unflinching look into her personal life as she left her family in Jerusalem, moved to New York City, and raised a family of her own. Carucci’s work has been celebrated for its transformation of the oft-overlooked details of everyday life into compelling expressions of emotion and intimacy.

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

The National Gallery of Art announces their upcoming Sally Mann retrospective in 2018

For more than forty years, Sally Mann (b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work including portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work.

Musée Magazine: Sebastiann Bremer

An Interview with Sebastiaan Bremer

16 June 2017

My process is playful. There is no clear plan or story I am trying to tell. I manipulate photographs which evoke a familiar feeling—something I have a deep connection to. As I draw on these photographs, a story is told—something seen through my eyes, an intrinsic human response to emotion and to memory. What I create are visual manifestations of my ideas.

Sally Mann featured in Musée Magazine

Artwork exploring what happens to our body, soul and mind after death

15 June 2017

Not many would voluntarily spend time around decaying corpses, alone, in a forest. Sally Mann, however, is not most
people. Her body of work, Body Farm, captures the silence surrounding her, the heavy feel of death saturating the air,
the stillness and calmness of a lifeless forest speckled with corpses.

Sebastiaan Bremer featured in Collector Daily

Sebatiaan Bremer's newest series Ave Maria

9 June 2017

A total of 14 black and white photographic works, framed in white and unmatted, and hung against cream colored walls in the main gallery space, the smaller side room, and the entry area. All of the works are hand painted archival inkjet prints on matte paper with pigment ink, made in 2016 and 2017. Physical sizes range from roughly 7×5 to 37×50 (or reverse) and all of the works are unique.

Mona Kuhn featured in "A Handful of Dust" exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London

7 June – 3 September 2017

A Handful of Dust is a speculative history of the 20th century, tracing a visual journey through the imagery of dust from aerial reconnaissance, wartime destruction and natural disasters to urban decay, domestic dirt and forensics.

Nick Brandt "Inherit the Dust" opens at Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

24 May 2017

"Sebastiaan Bremer: Ave Maria" in ARTNEWS

23 May 2017

Today’s show: “Sebastiaan Bremer: Ave Maria” is on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York through Saturday, June 24. The solo exhibition presents a series of recent works that use photographs that the Dutch artist took 23 years ago while living in New York.

Elinor Carucci wins PDN Magazine/Editorial award

16 May 2017

Sebastiaan Bremer: Sanctuary Installation at 21c

A multi-media arts festival celebrating community

9 MAY 2016

Sanctuary 21c is an immersive work that will transform a guest suite, combining components of a music-recording studio with antique mirrors, tile work, urban signage, and Bremer’s own artwork. The resulting ‘sanctuary’ will break down barriers between art and music, art and life, and the artist and the audience, as guests become participants, able to make and record music. Sanctuary 21c is the latest evolution of Bremer’s installations in which he and his collaborators create studio space to make art and play and record music.

Elinor Carucci named "The year's best of the best from 2016!" by AI-AP

3 May 2017

The story of Evan, a trans man who gave birth. My Brother's Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family, September 2016. Evan’s journey to parenthood was chronicled by his sister, the writer Jessi Hempel. Hempel writes about the growing number of transgender Americans who are founding families as well as the challenges they can sometimes face.

Elinor Carucci on i-D

Artwork Exploring the Beauty and Banality of Periods

6 April 2017

The new exhibition “Period.” includes bra sculptures and mesmerizing photographs of menstrual blood — and it may make some viewers uncomfortable.

For co-gallerists Eira Rojas and Aimee Rubenstein, the curatorial process always starts with the topics that animate their everyday conversations with friends. "I am constantly talking about my period," Eira says. "But only to a select group of individuals." These daily dialogues develop quickly into politically charged and provocative exhibitions at Miami's Rojas + Rubensteen Projects, the gallery the duo founded in October 2016. The last two shows at the space focused on the relationship between freedom and control in American politics and Islamophobia.

Valérie Belin in Culture Trip

7 Outstanding Contemporary Photographers from AIPAD New York 2017

3 April 2017

French artist Valérie Belin was born in 1964, and is currently based in Paris. Belin has been developing themes of disorder and chaos, creating works that are both visually and psychologically complex. Main concepts behind the All Star series exhibited at AIPAD examine stereotypes, psychology, and consumerism. Her photographic composites feature super-heroines in high-fashion settings with vintage comic book imagery. Through this unusual juxtaposition, Belin creates an alternate story. In 2015, Belin was awarded the Prix Pictet in 2015 for her work titled Disorder. She has exhibited in major institutions worldwide, including Centre Pompidou in Paris and New York City’s Museum of Modern Art.

Mona Kuhn featured in Musée

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD 2017

31 March

I am happy to report that the newly installed edition of the Photography Show presented by the Association of Independent Photography Art Dealers at Pier 94 is quite spectacular. There were many, myself included, who were very attached to the idea of this reliable warhorse being held in the Park Avenue Armory. Something about the enclosed, cozy space was familiar and intimate. The idea of the Pier could have rendered it cold and impersonal. The good news is that the lightness and extra space actually gives the galleries and the work more room to breathe.

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD reviewed by The New York Times

AIPAD's Photography Show Grows Up

31 March 2017

"The displays have great contrapuntal rhythms, between past and present, between color and black-and-white, and among sensibilities guided by burning social consciences, the drive to experiment or a joyful embrace of the medium’s idiosyncratic possibilities.

Sometimes all of this can be found in one eclectic presentation. At Edwynn Houk, for example, one of Robert Frank’s insightful images of Americans shares walls with Lillian Bassman’s innovative fashion photography andAbelardo Morell’s playful new still lifes, notably a scene of domestic catastrophe created for the camera from plywood, a ceramic pitcher and a plethora of flowers."

Lalla Essaydi in The New York Times

Arab Women Take Back Their Images In Art

18 March 2017

The depiction of Arab women in art is a relatively recent phenomenon. For centuries, it was unconditionally banned; the only existing representations were 19th-century European fantasies of women lazing in harems.

Now, women from the Muslim world appear frequently in painting, sculpture and photography, yet the issue remains fraught.

A panel discussion at The New York Times Art for Tomorrow conference in Doha explored the subject of how Arab women are portrayed in art, with Lalla Essaydi, an artist who lives and works in New York and Marrakesh, and Touria El Glaoui, the founder of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair and the daughter of the renowned Moroccan painter Hassan El Glaoui.

Abelardo Morell on Time's Lightbox

Exploring the Language of Flowers

9 March 2017

Flowers for Lisa, as it sounds, is Abe Morell’s ballad. Like a deliberate collection of bouquets from Manet, Mitchell and Penn, his new series is effeminate and tender, painterly yet instructed. Morell’s gingerly-framed flowers began as a birthday gift to his wife, Lisa McElaney, with a desire to prolong the pleasure that flowers suggest. Morell went on to investigate the language of flowers, and pronounced them by combining multiple frames of different arrangements to create images of euphoria.

Sebastiaan Bremer: Sanctuary in Paste

Social Design: Two Monks and an Artist are Reviving Community in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

7 March 2017

Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer is working to build a sanctuary in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Hailing from Amsterdam, Bremer moved to New York 25 years ago, making it his home. He lives and works in the neighborhood, his studio situated at the cozy intersection of Banker and N 15th. Across the street, sits the San Damiano Mission Church. Originally riding the line between church and community center, one day Bremer noticed the church’s old wooden doors were replaced with inviting glass ones. No doubt curious, Bremer walked in, finding two Franciscan monks that are working to renovate the space, as well as bring it back to its initial goal—community.

Valérie Belin on Aperture

Valérie Belin's Uncanny Visions

23 February 2017

In Valérie Belin’s latest series, All Star (2016), currently on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York, Belin places the faces of pale, idealized women against a background of digitally collaged, 1950s comic strips. The unidentified, unnamed models appear passive, almost forlorn, with eyes cast down or obscured by shadow. Rife with scenes of chaos and destruction, the composition and graphic quality of the images evokes nightmarish magazine covers, but each print stands about five-and-a-half feet tall—miniature billboards in scale. How confusing, how chaotic, how layered—and yet, how consumable.

Valérie Belin on Zeal NYC

There's an 'All Star' at the Edwynn Houk Gallery

20 February 2017

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the saying goes, but where do you start when defining this elusive ideal? ZEALnyc gives you some pointers on where to begin. This week we’re interested in Valérie Belin and her take on women, image and reality. Look for a bonus tip to learn more about her work. As always, all listings are free admission.

Mona Kuhn in The Art Newspaper

Artists Go Large on Los Angeles's Billboards

10 February 2017

Mona Kuhn, the photographer who organised The Billboard Creative shows for the past two years, says the format is a natural for the city, going back to the 1960s when artists such as Ed Ruscha were painting billboards on canvas. “We live in a car culture; our largest audience is not sitting still but commuting,” she says. “Some of our locations have 200,000 cars passing weekly.”

Valérie Belin on Crave

5 Art Exhibitions to See During Fashion Week

10 February 2017

French artist Valérie Belin has an intuitive gift for the space where beauty, glamour, artifice, surface, and disorder meet and fuse into a riotous blend of energy. Her newest series, All Star, features a selection of eleven large-scale color photographs that pull you into their spell. Combining portraits of feminine glamour with iconography taken from vintage comics, Belin weaves a wonderland of psychological complexity that moves between the sunshine of the fashion photograph and the mystique of film noir to create a new genre where the polarities of good and evil and joy and despair merge with endless ambiguity. Valérie Belin: All Star is on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery now through March 4, 2017.

7 February 2017

Camera Obscura Images Mark Bicentennial of Thoreau's Birth

Boston Globe article featuring work by Abelardo Morell

3 February 2017

There is the actual pond in Concord, with its trails, its cold depths, its sandy rim, its turtles and fish. And there is the pond that lives in our imaginations as the result of Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Walden.’’ Cuban-born and Boston-based photographer Abelardo Morell explores the interplay of the two through a quartet of panoramic photographs that will be exhibited as part of the launch of a year’s worth of celebrations at the Concord Museum marking the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth.

MoMA Announces Stephen Shore Exhibition, November 2017 - Spring 2018

via Blouin Artinfo

27 January 2017

The Museum of Modern Art in New York will be hosting an exhibition on the works of artist Stephen Shore that will be on view from November 19 through the spring of 2018.

The exhibition is the first U.S. survey to encompass the career of American photographer Stephen Shore (b. 1947, New York), from the gelatin silver prints he made as a teenager to his current engagement with digital platforms. The exhibition will both establish the artist’s full oeuvre in the context of his time- from his days at Andy Warhol’s Factory through the rise of American color photography and the transition to large-scale digital photography and argue for his singular vision and uncompromising pursuit of photography’s possibilities. The exhibition will include hundreds of photographic works, along with additional materials including books, ephemera and objects- created by the artist in many formats and mediums of photography, allowing the viewers for a fuller understanding of the diversity of his output. The exhibition will feature historic and recent prints of black-and-white and color photographs, books, periodicals, films, portfolios and digital works, including many that have never been published or exhibited, from his Conceptual projects, the American Surfaces and Uncommon Places series, his landscapes of the 1980s, commissions and his recent explorations of Israel and Ukraine.

12 Must-See Works at PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco

Artsy, featuring Sally Mann at Edwynn Houk Gallery booth A02

27 January 2017

Mann made a name for herself through the photographs of her children, taken between 1984 and 1992, which she stopped around the time her eldest daughter turned 12. “This is somewhat of an extension of that series, which was done when the children were coming of age, in their twenties, not living at home anymore,” said gallery director Julie Castellano. “They’re done so close up they’re almost an homage to death portraits.” One of an edition of five, the $55,000 large work was created in the wet collodion process, one of the earliest processes of photography. “Sally loves the way that it abstracts; she loves the imperfections. She can make a perfect print but she loves to play with the emulsion and add abstraction.”

How 4 Photographers Are Redefining Their Medium's Limits

AnOther Magazine, featuring Sebastiaan Bremer

26 January 2017

Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer first started out recreating his own photographs with paint. In 1998, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he trialled his now [signature] style of drawing on photographs. Part of a wider series, this piece originates from a box of negatives Sebastiaan discovered featuring images of his parents and siblings on holiday in the Alps in 1973. (He had been too young to go.) “It is hard to make profound remarks about happiness for some reason,” he says, reflecting on his practice. “Perhaps it’s related to what is said about how hard it is to make a good comedy film; it’s easier to faithfully depict drama. For me it is, anyway.”

Vera Lutter in The New York Times

Artist to Photograph Doomed Structures at Los Angeles County Museum

24 January 2017

Since 2013, critics have publicly debated the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s plans for a $600 million campus redesign by Peter Zumthor that requires razing three deteriorating 1965 buildings designed by William Pereira and a 1986 addition by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. While many, including Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture Critic for The Los Angeles Times, generally support the Zumthor plan, some favor renovation of the existing buildings or have voiced their emotional attachment to the old structures.

“There’s this real sense of nostalgia for place, even if the place doesn’t function anymore,” said the museum’s director, Michael Govan. Rather than sweeping such sentiments under the rug as he stewards the campus overhaul, Mr. Govan has commissioned the artist Vera Lutter “to confront these sites that have meaning and preserve them through her work.”

Abelardo Morell on CBS Sunday Morning

The Visual Delights of Camera Obscura

22 January 2017

By utilizing a basic principle of optics once used by Renaissance artists like Canaletto and Vermeer, photographer Abelardo Morell builds a "camera obscura" with which to capture landscapes and architectural wonders. Serena Altschul reports on how Morell's fascinating photographs really bring the outside in.

French Embassy on Valérie Belin's Exhibition + Book Signing

19 January 2017

Valérie Belin will present her newest series, "All Star" at Edwynn Houk Gallery. The exhibition of eleven large-scale color photographs will be on view January 19 - March 4, 2017.

In conjuction with the show, Valérie Belin will be in conversation with Quentin Bajac, at Albertine bookstore on February, 28th at 7pm. Quentin Bajac is the Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. They will discuss Belin’s new book, Valerie Belin(Damiani, 288 pages, $55) which surveys her stunning series from Magicians, Bouquets and Lido to Brides, Bob, and Black Eyed Susan and continuing up to recent work including Super Models and All Stars. The conversation will be followed by a book signing.

Abelardo Morell and the Magic of Camera Obscura

Courtesy of SF MoMA

Artist Abelardo Morell reimagines scenery by turning entire rooms into camera obscuras — effectively merging interior and exterior spaces — and then photographing the results. He discusses how he developed this peculiar practice over time, and how he has found fulfillment infusing everyday environments with new enchantment.

Mona Kuhn and The Billboard Collective

Mona Kuhn Curates The 2016 Billboard Creative Show

Billboards dominate the landscape of Los Angeles. A vast sea of signs greets commuters each day with an onslaught of commercial messaging. The Billboard Creative offers an alternative: art replacing advertising, for an entire month, at some of the busiest intersections throughout Los Angeles.

Elinor Carucci on Time

Elinor Carucci's Take on the Humanity of Photography

21 November 2016

We asked Israeli-American photographer Elinor Carucci, whose book, Mother, chronicled her pregnancy and her relationship with her twins, to delve into the power of photography.

A faculty member of the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts with work held in permanent collections of museums across the world, Carucci says she’s looking for universality in her own work. “I am looking to go deeper,” she tells TIME. “Beyond the façade of what we see into I guess the core of who we are.”

Mona Kuhn on AnOther

15 November 2016

Several photographers presented large-scale scenes that opened a window into their own dreams. Their photographs played with the logical assumption that an image must depict the real, and instead provided the viewer with an escape from reality. Los Angeles-based photographer Mona Kuhn showed several colourful images featuring models enjoying a classical, Dionysian garden scene, as though taken from a dream.

Nick Brandt: ENDANGERED!

Works on View at John Jay College

14 November - 3 February, 2017

ENDANGERED! the exhibition and its related programming is an emergency call to save the imperiled creatures whose precarious state is completely human caused. The endangered species crisis is growing at an alarming rate due to wildlife trafficking for animal parts and the exotic pet trade; habitat loss, degradation and conflicts due to the mining, logging, drilling, dams, agriculture, and livestock grazing, and further exacerbated by climate change.

Valérie Belin Book Signing

Paris Photo

11 November 2016

Lillian Bassman in The New York Times

Stunning, Rare Images Collected by a Fashion-World Force

10 November 2016

As a longtime editor and the creator of 10 Corso Como, Milan’s high-end retail and dining complex, Carla Sozzani is a well-known figure in the fashion world; and as the founder of the gallery there that bears her name, she’s been a longtime force in the art world as well. What many don’t know is that she is also a passionate collector of photography. For more than 40 years, she has built a collection of over 650 works, mostly in black and white, representing more than 70 artists from the 19th century to today: big names like Helmut Newton, Alfred Stieglitz, August Sanders and Irving Penn, but also lesser-known photographers like Xanti Schawinsky, an experimental artist from the 1920s.

Herb Ritts at Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris

En Pleine Lumière

7 September - 30 October 2016

Images of Herb Ritts is a miracle of lightness and harmony, the representation of a rare balance, not to hold, but that prints forever on photo paper and passes through the careful mix of natural elements, the exaltation of the body, evidence of light on their faces. Walking through one after the other photos of Ritts, we see the world not as it appears, but as we would like, offering only perfect day, blue skies, smooth bodies and faces heedless. Found in all his photographs natural elements which fed his gaze - the wind, the light and the land of California, the horizon of sight, the immense spaces - as well as the bodies of male and female models, their eyes , their clothes. The result is a rare and valuable combination of these ingredients and his photographic work a measured set of spontaneity and composition, glamor and immediacy, sophisticated poses and pure fun.

Danny Lyon on Crave

Photographer Danny Lyon’s “Journey” is an Epic History of Modern Life

27 September 2016

Empathy is both an emotional response, as well as a cognitive one. We can both feel what another experiences, as well as perceive it through rational thought. To be empathetic is a challenge some refuse to accept, but for those willing to open themselves, it is a two-fold process. First there is simply the ability to understand that which is not our own, and to refrain from manipulations that would adulterate its truth.

Nick Brandt on Vimeo

Inherit The Dust: Behind The Scenes

7 September 2016

Made, written and narrated by photographer Nick Brandt, he tells the story of the production of the photo series, Inherit the Dust.
The second of two videos written and narrated by Nick Brandt about Inherit the Dust.
Produced by Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, who held a major exhibition of Inherit The Dust May-September 2016.
Buy the large format book of the series, "Inherit The Dust", on Amazon.

Nick Brandt on Vimeo

Inherit The Dust: The Concept

7 September 2016

Made, written and narrated by photographer Nick Brandt, he tells the story of the concept behind the photo series, Inherit the Dust.
The first of two videos written and narrated by Nick Brandt about Inherit the Dust.
Produced by Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, who held a major exhibition of Inherit The Dust May-September 2016.
Buy the large format book of the series, "Inherit The Dust", on Amazon.

Lynn Davis in Billionaire

The Iceberg Photographs of Lynn Davis, By Clara Le Fort

3 August 2016

While travelling to Ilulissat, a small town on the edge of Disko Bay in Greenland, her career hit a turning point when she discovered icebergs. For 30 years she would return, tracking and studying their changing shapes. Monumental, Davis’s icebergs seem to drift away on the gelatin silver prints. Their shape long vanished; their suggestive carvings long gone. She asks herself: “What is so special about these icebergs? What causes loss of self in these creatures?”

Danny Lyon at The Whitney reviewed by Collector Daily

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future @ Whitney | In Museums

27 July 2016

Covering six decades of artistic output, Danny Lyon’s first full retrospective provides an inclusively robust cross section of his work as a photographer, filmmaker, and writer, so much so that it opens the door to a wholesale re-evaluation of his long career. What it shows us is that the first decade of Lyon’s career (from roughly the early 1960s to the early 1970s) burned with an astonishingly incandescent brightness that few have matched before or since. In that one ten year span, Lyon delivered no less than four stand alone lightning strike projects of durable significance, along with several other in-between efforts of overlooked merit. Seeing that consistent intensity of engagement clearly laid out in a series of well-edited adjacent rooms is immensely impressive.

Danny Lyon in The New Yorker

Outside Edge | A documentary photographer with a social conscience, at the Whitney

4 July 2016

Danny Lyon’s career would make a great bio-pic. The New York City photographer, who, at seventy-four, is the subject of the Whitney’s terrific survey “Message to the Future,” has led an improbably adventurous life, beginning with his involvement in the civil-rights movement...

Lillian Bassman in The Wall Street Journal

24 June 2016

Lillian Bassman (1917-2012) began her career in fashion photography assisting the great Harper’s Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch. She was an accomplished darkroom technician who honed her skills on her lunch hours developing images for George Hoyningen-Huene, using bleach and selective focus to manipulate the prints. In 1946 she began taking her own photographs, and in 1947 Harper’s published Bassman’s first picture...

21 June 2016

Danny Lyon in American Photo

Danny Lyon's First Major Retrospective Opens at The Whitney

17 June 2016

Message to the Future brings together vintage prints and never–before-seen films from the artist’s collection

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this weekend, collects 175 pictures, vintage work prints, never-before-seen films and ephemera from Lyon’s archives to take an in-depth look at his work as an immersive documentary storyteller who is just as engaged in writing, filmmaking and collage as is he in photography.

Danny Lyon in The New York Times

16 June 2016

Art and life are never entirely separate, but different artists lean more toward one than the other for inspiration. For the photographer Danny Lyon, the world of live humans has been the bigger draw. “You put a camera in my hand,” he once said, “I want to get close to people. Not just physically close, emotionally close; all of it.”

Stephen Shore Retrospective at Huis Marseille Museum

10 June - 4 September 2016

The work of the American photographer Stephen Shore (b. 1947, New York City) has shaped contemporary photography and inspired generations of photographers. He has never stopped exploring the boudaries of photography, and has selected subjects that were not seen as obviously photogenic. He has effortlessly switched back and forth between black and white and colour, and has experimented with a wide variety of cameras and every possible format. This exhibition covers the period 1960-2016 and shows important turning points in his career.

Mona Kuhn Interview in Yet Magazine

The human body through Mona Kuhn's visual poetry

31 May 2016

Mona Kuhn is best known for her large-scale, dream-like photographs of the human form. Her work often reference classical themes with a light and insightful touch. Kuhn’s approach to her photography is unusual in that she usually develops close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable naturalness and intimacy, and creating the effect of people naked but comfortable in their own skin. She has recently been the judge of The Human Bodytheme for Life Framer.

Lillian Bassman in W Magazine

Fashion Photography with Lillian Bassman

31 May 2016

As the art director of Junior Bazaar, a short-lived Harper's Bazaar spin-off, Lillian Bassman spent the early 40's working with photography greats like Robert Frank and Richard Avedon. Then she decided to pick up the camera herself. Soon, it was Bassman's own images appearing in the pages of Bazaar—carefully blurred, fashion-focused silhouettes that John Galliano once described as possessed of "painterly strokes of light." Though she did lose a bit of fire at one point—Bassman destroyed decades' worth of prints and negatives in the 70's, even debating abandoning the medium—she stuck with her instantly recognizable black-and-white photography, shooting Galliano's designs up into the 90's, even toying around with digital before she died in 2012. Take a look back at her career through some her most memorable pictures, up now at New York's Edwynn Houk Gallery through July 8th, here.

Nick Brandt in L'Oeil de la Photographie

Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust at Stockholm, Berlin and Paris

25 May 2016

Many of Nick Brandt‘s photographs of African wildlife look like studio portraits, a Richard Avedon perhaps. But they are not, they were taken in situ on African land with a patience born of love, and without a telephoto lens. He used a Pentax 67 ll to photograph the animals and a Mamiya RZ67 Pro II for the onsite images in this series. There is no doubt that his photographs are, in his words, “achieved by one not so simple thing: getting very, very close to the animals.” His photos are exquisite depictions of animals and a way of life we may be on the brink of losing...

Sally Mann Interview with Indy Week

18 May 2016

Internationally renowned photoggrapher Sally Mann stays close to home. Since the early 1980s, Mann has used her farm near Lexington, Virginia, as a home base for taking photographs and painstakingly developing negatives by hand. When the intimate photographs of her children in 1992's Immediate Family brought her a notoriety she didn't expect, Mann didn't give in. Nearly twenty-five years later, she continues to confront themes as knotty as they are universal: the bodies of children and of the dead, the South and its legacy of violence and racial discrimination. In her memoir, Hold Still, which she brings to the Triangle this week, Mann uses her family history to excavate her personality, work ethic, and obsession with photography's ability to stop time and reveal the timeless.

Lillian Bassman in American Photo

Lillian Bassman's Abstract, Re-Imagined Fashion Photography | A fresh look at fashion imagery that was ahead of its time

11 May 2016

In the early 1970s, after decades as a successful fashion photographer, Lillian Bassman got fed up. Disillusioned by the direction that commercial fashion imagery was headed, she stopped taking assignments and even destroyed most of her negatives and prints—which now seems like a bizarre act of a mad artist.

Nick Brandt on BBC News

Inherit the Dust: Photographing 'the ghosts' of animals

10 May 2016

British photographer Nick Brandt has been making intimate portraits of East African animals for close to two decades. In that time, many of the places he works have been transformed by rapid development, and the environmental devastation that often comes with it. Now, in a new book and series of international exhibitions is called Inherit the Dust, Brandt attempts to show what habitat destruction looks like by placing giant portraits of animals in landscapes where they used to roam.

Elinor Carucci in TIME

Mother’s Day: The Photographs that Moved Them Most Paul Moakley

6 May 2016

TIME asked 12 photographers who’ve dedicated themselves to making extensive work about their families to reflect on their experiences with their mothers—and to describe which of their own photographs moved them most.

Gail Albert Halaban in The Bubble

16 April 2016

Peering over the edge of an ornate building lining the Avenida de Mayo, Gail Albert Halaban trains her lens on the window of the opposite building. Below her, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares pulses with commuters in motion, cars honk in the late afternoon swell, yet with the orange haze of dusk setting in behind her, the photographer snaps her subject with silent conviction.

Edwynn Houk Gallery at AIPAD featured in The New York Times

14 April 2016

If instead of looking for bargains (lots of luck) you are hunting for surprises, there are other lessons to be picked up amid the wide-ranging array of high-priced work for sale. At Edwynn Houk, the importance of scale is emphasized. In “Underpass With Elephants (Lean Back, Your Life Is on Track),” shot last year, the English photographer Nick Brandt hung a life-size print of his portrait of elephants from a highway overpass in Nairobi, under which homeless glue sniffers congregate.

Sebastiaan Bremer in Art in Print

Global Journal of Prints and Ideas, Volume 5, Number 6

March - April 2016

New York–based Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer mines extant images for his photographic alterations; his sources are usually personal, but he also looks for images that carry wider cultural implications. He is interested in how we consume images: what does a photographic image signify? Which archetypes does it represent and what personal meanings does it carry? In an effort to bring forth latent associations, Bremer makes free-associative changes to his found photographs—either adding or subtracting, or both.

Nick Brandt Book in American Photo

29 March 2016

Inherit the Dust, by Nick Brandt | Edwynn Houk Editions, $65

Nick Brandt’s latest work is both gorgeous and disturbing: He applies his stately animal portraiture to a potent caveat about the Earth’s fate. Brandt returns to East Africa, where he’s photographed his trilogy of wildlife-imagery projects in recent years. This time around, he places life-sized panels of great and endangered species—elephants, rhinos, zebras, lions, apes—in locales where the animals once roamed, which are now littered with detritus from factories, dumpsites, quarries, overpasses and other man-made intrusions.

Nick Brandt in Mother Jones

Sublime Photos of African Wildlife Roaming Their Lost Habitat

As an ardent conservationist, photographer Nick Brandt's early work showing the majesty of the large animals that once ruled East Africa wasn't enough. Brandt created three gorgeous photo books focused on African animals in danger of extinction: On This Earth (2005), A Shadow Falls (2009) and Across the Ravaged Land (2013). As a result of that work, what he saw, and what he learned, in 2010 he created the Big Life Foundation with conservationist Richard Bonham. Big Life protects more than 2 million acres of the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem in East Africa.

Cathleen Naundorf in The Society Diaries

C'est Si Bon

Nick Brandt in American Photo

Animal Habitats in Life-Sized Urban Panoramas

Nick Brandt’s new photographic work, Inherit the Dust, is his visual cry of anguish about the looming apocalypse for animals habitats in Africa. If the killing of animals continues at its current pace, the elephants, rhinos, lions and cheetahs will all but disappear in 10 years. “I am embarrassed to use this phrase because it’s so corny and clichéd, but I want to make the world a better place,” he says.

Lalla Essaydi at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art: “My work is really my history”

May 9, 2012

Lalla Essaydi interviewed by PBS NewsHour

May 9, 2012

Danny Lyon film screening at Anthology Film Archives

May 6-7, 2012, 7:30pm

This year marks Lyon’s 70th birthday, a major retrospective of his photographs at The Menil Collection in Houston, and the preservation of two of his most significant films. Anthology Film Archives is thrilled to welcome Lyon in person for a screening of these enthralling works alongside the world premiere of his most recent short video. Expect a lively conversation from an uncompromising artist whose vision only sharpens with age. Happy birthday, Danny!

April 21- May 17, 2012

Danny Lyon retrospective at The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs

March 30- July 29, 2012

This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs, an exhibition of approximately 45 photographs and photographic montages, traces the evolution of the New York and New Mexico-based artist’s career from 1962 to the present. A leading and explosively creative figure in the American street photography movement of the 1960s, Lyon distinguished himself from peers like Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander through his exceptionally strong political consciousness and concern for those on the margins of society.

Robert Polidori review in MUSE magazine

Winter 2012

Sissi Farassat review in Artslant

January 4, 2011

Erwin Blumenfeld review in The New Yorker

December 19 & 26, 2011

"Some thirty vintage fashion photographs, made between the late nineteen-thirties and the early sixties, establish Blumenfeld’s avant-garde ambitions but only hint at the range and the audacity of his work. As one of fashion’s most inventive photographers, he brought a distinctly European sensibility to Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, where his pictures often put a surreal spin on classical motifs...."

Review on Art Agenda

Diane Arbus & August Sander

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

"... this well edited, cogent exhibition pairing the two artists at Galerie Edwynn Houk, the new Zurich branch of the estimable photography gallery in New York, shouldn’t have been surprising. Yet it was: the lasting power and startling frankness of Sander’s and Arbus’s oeuvres, dissecting and delineating twentieth-century social mores and postures, left me more than a little moved." (Quinn Latimer, 12/12/11)

Danny Lyon photographs Occupy LA

December 6, 2011

Book signing for Danny Lyon

Deep Sea Diver and Memories of Myself

Saturday, November 5, 2011, 3 - 5 pm

Renowned American photographer Danny Lyon will be signing copies of his two most recent publications with Phaidon: the limited edition "Deep Sea Diver" (2011) and his book of photo-essays "Memories of Myself" (2009).

Art + Argument at Galerie Edwynn Houk Zürich

Art is the world’s lingua franca

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Herb Ritts exhibition in VOGUE

Picture This: "Herb Ritts" at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York

April 29, 2011

In 2002, Vogue lost of one of its most significant contributors when the photographer Herb Ritts passed away, but his legacy has lived on in photography and film, both of which will be showcased in the Edwynn Houk Gallery’s first Herb Ritts show, which opens today, after being feted last night.

Herb Ritts exhibition opens at Edwynn Houk Gallery

Opening Reception, 28 April 6-8 pm

April 28– June 25, 2011

Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce our representation of the Herb Ritts Foundation with an exhibition of photographs drawn from the estate’s collection. The show will take place from 28 April through 25 June 2011.

Houk Gallery named one of The World’s 10 Best Photography Galleries

by Paul Laster on Flavorwire

April 6, 2011

Starting out in Chicago in 1980, Edywnn Houk Gallery moved to New York in 1991 and expanded to Zurich in 2010. Mixing 20th century masters like Brassai, Bill Brandt, and Man Ray with contemporary practitioners, such as Sally Mann, Victor Schrager, and Lynn Davis, Edywnn Houk Gallery consistently presents adventurous yet poetic work. A survey show of Lalla Essaydi’s Les Femmes du Maroc (Women of Morocco) is currently on view at the Zurich space.

Sebastiaan Bremer review in The New Yorker

March 28, 2011

Goings On About Town: ArtSebastiaan Bremer

There has been a lot of painted photography in town lately (Sam Falls’s recent outing at Higher Pictures, Sarah Anne Johnson’s current show at Saul), but Bremer’s is the most sophisticated, the most excessive, and the most extraordinary.

Houk Gallery artists Elena Dorfman and Robert Polidori featured in Muse Magazine

Spring 2011

Houk Gallery on Art in America's AIPAD Show Top Ten

AIPAD Show New York: Faye Hirsch's Top Ten

March 18, 2011

Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York): Maybe it's an unfair way to begin, as this is the booth that greets visitors at the entrance—with a big, dramatic cowboy, colorful in a hot sunset, by contemporary Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid. How could you not get roped in? There are many dealers showing some extraordinary vintage prints, but Houk has two that made us literally weak in the knees...

Lalla Essaydi: Harem exhibition opens at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York

November 4, 2010 - January 15, 2011

Bettina Rheims review in The New Yorker

October 25, 2010

Gallery Night on 57th Street

between Lexington Avenue and 7th Avenue

October 14, 2010, 5 to 8 pm

Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to participate in this special Gallery Night on 57th Street. Sixty four galleries located on 57th Street in New York City will be open to the public on Thursday, October 15th until 8 pm.